Consul in 62 BC, husband of Servilia
A coin featuring the consul Decimus Junius Silanus (107 – after 62 BC) was a consul of the Roman Republic . He may have been the son of Marcus Junius Silanus , consul in 109 BC. He was the stepfather of Marcus Junius Brutus , having married Brutus' mother, Servilia .
Born in 107 BC,[ 1] [ 2]
Silanus married Servilia , after her first husband died. Together they had four children, a son, Marcus Junius Silanus , and three daughters, Junia Prima , Junia Secunda , and Junia Tertia . Silanus may also have been the father of a Decimus Junius Silanus.[ 3]
He was aedile in 70 BC, but he lost the election to be a consul of 63. He was successful the following year, and so in consequence of his being consul designatus was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators . At first he spoke in favor of "the supreme penalty" for the conspirators, but when Julius Caesar suggested life imprisonment, Silanus insisted that was what he had really meant. As such, it was left to Cato the Younger to force through the decision to actually execute them.
He was consul in 62 with Lucius Licinius Murena . They proposed the lex Junia Licinia rogatio nundinae , or market-intervals, before the people voted on it. It also confirmed the lex Caecilia Didia .[ 4]
Salonia (2)Cato the Elder Licinia (1)Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus Marcus Livius Drusus Marcus Porcius Cato (2)Livia Quintus Servilius Caepio (1)Marcus Livius Drusus Atilia (1)Cato the Younger Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus ,Marcus Junius Brutus (1)Servilia , mistress of Julius Caesar AUGUSTUS Decimus Junius Silanus (2)Servilia Gnaeus Servilius Caepio Lucius Appuleius SATURNINUS Marcus Porcius Cato Porcia Marcus Junius Brutus Junia Prima Junia Tertia Gaius Cassius Longinus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC) Appuleia, daughter of SATURNINUS Junia Secunda Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 50 BC) Descendant ofPOMPEY MAGNUS and Lucius Cornelius SULLA son (perhaps Quintus Aemilius Lepdius ?) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (the Younger) Servilia Isaurica , daughter of Junia Prima (see above) and Publius Servilius Isauricus Emperor AUGUSTUS JULIO-CLAUDIANS descendants )Paullus Aemilius Lepidus Cornelia , daughter of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus and Scribonia , wife of AUGUSTUS Julia the Elder Manius Aemilius Lepidus Aemilia Lepida II (also engaged to Lucius Caesar , see JULIO-CLAUDIANS AUGUSTUS Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (of the Sulpicia gens , related to GALBA Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1) Julia the Younger , daughter of Julia the Elder and Marcus Vispanius Agrippa , see AUGUSTUS Cornelia aboveMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 6 AD) daughter (perhaps known as Aemilia Lepida ?) Aemilia Lepida Servius Sulpicius GALBA Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (of the Aemilia gens , related to the Lepidae )Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus (of the Junia gens , related to BRUTUS Aemilia Lepida CLAUDIUS AUGUSTUS JULIO-CLAUDIANS Lucius Vitellius (consul 34) Livilla , daughter of Drusus the Elder and sister of Germanicus CLAUDIUS Drusus Caesar (see JULIO-CLAUDIANS Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the almost emperor Aemilia Lepida Drusus Caesar , son of Agrippina the Elder Julia the Elder AUGUSTUS Julia the Younger above and see JULIO-CLAUDIANS Gaius Cassius Longinus (descended from or related to GAIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS Junia Lepida Junia Calvina Lucius Vitellius (consul 48) Aulus VITELLIUS (for Otho's relation, in terms of the Year of the Four Emperors Poppaea Sabina , who married NERO AUGUSTUS CLAUDIUS Cassia Longina Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, brother of Milona , wife of CALIGULA JULIO-CLAUDIANS Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus Domitia Longina Domitian FLAVIANS VESPASIAN Plautia (possibly existed, although unsure, but if so, then her brother is Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus , father of Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus , alleged ancestor of Fabia Orestilla , wife of Gordian I GORDIANS Lucius Ceionius Commodus Lucius Aelius Caesar Marcus Aurelius NERVA-ANTONINES Lucius Verus NERVA-ANTONINES Lucilla
(1): 1st spouse
(2): 2nd spouse
†: assassin of Caesar
Notes:
^ Sumner, Orators in Cicero's Brutus , p. 129
^ Treggiari, Susan (2019). Servilia and her Family . Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780192564641 ^ Drogula, Fred K. (2019). Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic . Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780190869045 ^ Cicero, The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero , Note V p. 429. See also rogatio
^ Tacitus, Publius Cornelius; Grant, Michael (1996). The Annals of Imperial Rome (PDF) (3 ed.). London, England: Penguin Classics. p. 436. ISBN 9780140440607 . Retrieved 6 February 2025 .
public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Silanus, Junius (5)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 819– 20.
Appian , Bellum Civilum , ii.5.Cicero , de Officiis , ii.57; ad Atticum , i.1, ii.9, iv.16, xii.21.7; in Catilinam , iv.4; pro Sestio , 64; in Vatinum , 14; Philippics , ii.5.Cicero , The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero , Volume 1, Edition 2 1885 (Google Books)Pliny the Elder , Naturalis Historia , ii.35.Plutarch , Cicero , 20, 21; Cato Minor , 22.Sallust , Bellum Catilinae , 50.Suetonius , Caesar , 14.
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